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		<title>General Manager&#8217;s Welcome</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2362/2008/10/03/general-managers-welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Harrison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My first experience with commercial air travel was when I was 14 and took a trip to Hartford, Conn., departing out of Columbia Regional Airport.  I remember how cool it was to walk out on the tarmac, up the rolling staircase and onto what seemed like a very small plane.  After three and a half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soap Box: 102 columns ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Schuster</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was reorganizing paper piles on my desk, I stumbled upon a folder containing some of my early columns. This is column number 102. I began this monthly exercise in fall 2000. Among the four columns written that year was the December column titled: Hope. Fall was full of campaigning. Bill Clinton&#8217;s era was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Journalist: Of criminals, and the landlords who rent to them</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2312/2008/10/03/citizen-journalist-of-criminals-and-the-landlords-who-rent-to-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Martin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Googling &#8220;802 Wilkes Blvd.&#8221; tells a troubling tale.  A Columbia Police Department press release pops up at the top of the page:
KNIFE ASSAULT on Dec 27, 2007
LOCATION: 802 Wilkes Blvd.
VICTIM: 29-year-old male
SUSPECT: Charles E. McCoy of Columbia
&#8220;Arrests and Summonses&#8221; from the Columbia Daily Tribune follow:  Marquale Walton of 802 Wilkes Blvd., receiving stolen property, stealing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Roundtable: Time to reinstate Depression-era legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2306/2008/10/03/from-the-roundtable-time-to-reinstate-depression-era-legislation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Germond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The past couple of weeks have been tough on the business community, with dire developments affecting what I consider to be a most important aspect-consumer confidence.
Fates and fortunes rise and fall with each day&#8217;s news amplified for better or worse by increasingly sophisticated communications tools such as the iPhone. There&#8217;s some history worth recalling as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County View: Boone County establishing stormwater regulations, flexibility</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2309/2008/10/03/county-view-boone-county-establishing-stormwater-regulations-flexibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Miller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing stormwater can be overwhelming&#8211; whether you are the developer trying to meet the regulations or the homeowner being flooded when upstream development doesn&#8217;t take into consideration the downstream effect.
Boone County is working to comply with the EPA Clean Water Act&#8217;s Stormwater Phase II regulations, which took affect in 2003. The state regulations require the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other Views: Ex-insurance department spokesman dies after losing insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2174/2008/09/19/other-views-ex-insurance-department-spokesman-dies-after-losing-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note:
Randy McConnell was a regular contributor to the Columbia Business Times and the Jefferson City Business Times, now the Jefferson City magazine. The front pages of the CBT in the past few years were regularly highlighted Randy&#8217;s in-depth analyses of topics such as MU&#8217;s dwindling political support, the lack of transportation funding, the ethanol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Roundtable: Columbia&#8217;s construction permit process a welcome development</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2162/2008/09/19/from-the-roundtable-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Germond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The streamlining of Columbia&#8217;s construction permit process is a welcome development for the thousands of people engaged in that activity. Many of them have felt increasingly hamstrung and hassled over the years.
City Manager Bill Watkins outlined steps his office and various municipal departments are in the process of implementing during the most recent CBT Power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City View: Bond issue goal: keep water reliable and affordable</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2166/2008/09/19/city-view-bond-issue-goal-keep-water-reliable-and-affordable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Watkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Columbia City Council voted to put a $38.9 million bond issue to public vote on the Nov. 4 ballot. This is in keeping with the city&#8217;s tradition of funding utility projects by borrowing money approximately every five years through bond issues.
&#8220;Wait a minute,&#8221; you might ask, &#8220;didn&#8217;t we just approve a bond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Journalist: A Series of Unfortunate Decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2171/2008/09/19/citizen-journalist-a-series-of-unfortunate-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2171/2008/09/19/citizen-journalist-a-series-of-unfortunate-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Martin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister Stephanie stopped walking by the time she was 6 years old.  She weighed 42  pounds the month before her death at 28, a ripe old age for a muscular dystrophy patient.
Stephanie lived at home every year of her short life.  I have memories  of the things my mother and I did to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Welcome</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/2143/2008/09/19/editors-welcome-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Reed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit it. I habitually peeked into windows of a certain building on the northwest corner of Eighth and Cherry streets. And I&#8217;m pretty sure there were plenty of other pedestrian peepers.
This was, after all, the space being renovated to house Bleu restaurant, and we couldn&#8217;t wait for it to open. (I knew the food [...]]]></description>
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